It will be exciting to be back in Marshall this week for the city’s Juneteenth celebrations, Kimberly Brown said. “It’s a celebration for all people. It’s part of everyone’s history,” Brown said.

The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.

Jefferson, famous for the Declaration of Independence, is also often quoted from a letter he wrote in 1816 to John Adams: " I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past ," he ...

The fourth annual Ottumwa Juneteenth Celebration will take place Wednesday, June 19, from noon to 8 p.m. in Central Park. The free, family-friendly event will feature food, entertainment, ...

Juneteenth was of course an occasion for feasting. In her book “High on the Hog,” historian Jessica B. Harris wrote that “the ...

There are so many ways to celebrate Juneteenth in NYC this year. From Broadway to Black Restaurant Week. Here's everything you need to know about the federal holiday.

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in ...

Juneteenth can't be changed by an executive order with an ego-sized signature scratched onto a piece of paper by someone slouched in the Oval Office.

Hundreds of people will march through Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood to celebrate Juneteenth on Saturday!

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment ...

Juneteenth commemorates the official emancipation of enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas — where on ...

Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. Here's how to celebrate in Phoenix, Tempe, ...